Ganstagrass: world premiere of hip-hop/bluegrass video for "Gunslinging Rambler"

Rench sez, "The previously BoingBoinged bluegrass hip-hop band Gangstagrass shares an exclusive premiere of their live video for 'Gunslinging Rambler featuring R-SON' - showing that this has gone way beyond a mash-up. Witness rapper, dj, and bluegrass band rocking the stage together at one of their face-melting shows in Brooklyn. We are offering the first peek at this to BoingBoing as a world premiere!"

I'm a great fan of this stuff. Gangstagrass performs exactly the kind of bluegrass music I favor and exactly the kind of hip-hop I favor, and seems to have discovered the alchemical secret of mixing the two perfectly.

To enjoy music, I need to identify with it some, even just a little. There have been times in my life when I’ve identified with Hip-hop. And other times I’ve identified with bluegrass. But this music just doesn’t fit into me, no matter which way I turn it.

Musical version of green tea ice cream. Not to everybody’s taste, but for some people, it’s unexpectedly awesome. Most of the bluegrass musicians I know, when I played their album for them, just started laughing in enjoyment and glee…

I love Gangstagrass. No, it’s not for everyone. Jim called it a “musical version of green tea ice cream,” which is accurate. Most of the criticisms I’ve read here are weak. Might as well have just said, “I don’t care for this style of music,” instead of wasting time with their pseudo-Bohemian shenanigans.

Adam Warrock has created a great album, mashing up his own rap with samples of the bluegrass score from Firefly. Here’s a teaser for the album – it’s the first half that showcases the mood of the album (not sure why I can’t find the “Firefly” cut online). It definitely falls in the gangstagrass genre. Here’s the entire album. Love love love.